Learn English – the word for “All Being” (similar to omnipotent for all powerful)

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I'm looking for a word for "All Being" to describe deity existing, always existing, and existing for eternity.

Other words often used to describe deity include:

  1. omnipotent—all powerful
  2. omnipresent—present everywhere at the same time
  3. omniscient—all knowing

None of these words describe a being/deity that has always existed and will always exist. A being that exists because he/she exists; i.e., needs nothing/nobody else to define his/her existence.

Does such a word exist?

Best Answer

This may verge into theology here; but if you want to talk about the relationship of a deity to time, one common word is eternal:

: having no beginning and no end in time : lasting forever
: existing at all times : always true or valid

(merriam-webster.com)

Saint Thomas Aquinas, in his Summa Theologica, defines eternity (following the Christian philosopher Boethius) as

the simultaneously-whole and perfect possession of interminable life

and argues that this characterizes God.

If this is what you're looking for, use the word eternal.

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